Nuclear Reactor Japan Fukushima

In september 2013 irid called for submissions on the management of contaminated water at fukushima. The international research institute for nuclear decommissioning was set up in august 2013 japan by jaea japanese utilities and reactor vendors with a focus on fukushima 1 4. The fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant 福島第一原子力発電所 fukushima daiichi genshiryoku hatsudensho is a disabled nuclear power plant located on a 3 5 square kilometre 860 acre site in the towns of ōkuma and futaba in fukushima prefecture japan the plant suffered major damage from the magnitude 9 0 earthquake and tsunami that hit japan on march 11 2011.

The site is on japan s pacific coast in northeastern fukushima prefecture about 100 km 60 miles south of sendai. Fukushima accident also called fukushima nuclear accident or fukushima daiichi nuclear accident accident in 2011 at the fukushima daiichi number one plant in northern japan the second worst nuclear accident in the history of nuclear power generation. By now more japanese have died from the closing of japan s nuclear power plants following the 2011 tohoku quake than from the tsunami and the earthquake combined which was about 20 000 people.

That facility located on japan s pacific coast in northeastern fukushima. A failure of the main power line and a loss of backup power were at the heart of the second worst nuclear accident in the history of nuclear power generation after chernobyl a partial meltdown in 2011 at the fukushima daiichi number one plant in japan. Nuclear reactor nuclear reactor fukushima.

Nuclear power accounted for about 30 of. All of japan s 54 reactors were shut down after a giant tsunami caused a triple meltdown at the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant in march 2011. Tokyo japan at the end of a decade in which northeastern japan was devastated by a tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster at fukushima atomic energy looks unlikely to make a comeback.

As of february 2019 of the 54 nuclear reactors in japan there were 42 operable reactors but only 9 reactors in 5 power plants were actually operating. Nuclear power energy was a national strategic priority in japan. Prior to the 2011 tōhoku earthquake and tsunami japan had generated 30 of its electrical power from nuclear reactors and planned to increase that share to 40.

Tohoku electric power whose onagawa power plant was closest to the epicentre of the earthquake has been given initial approval from the japanese government to restart its number 2 reactor. Eight years after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that led to the meltdown of several reactors in fukushima japan s nuclear industry is rebounding. However their spent fuel pools still required cooling.

The fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant comprised six separate boiling water reactors originally designed by general electric ge and maintained by the tokyo electric power company tepco.